Keystone Pipeline
TransCanada Keystone Pipeline
"TransCanada Keystone Pipeline, LLC (Keystone) is proposing to construct and operate a crude oil pipeline from Hardistry (Alberta), Canada to Patoka, Illinois (view map of project). The pipeline will be able to deliver 435,000 barrels per day (bpd) of crude oil to existing terminals in Missouri (Salisbury) and Illinois (Wood River and Patoka). The system capacity could be expanded in the future up to 591,000 bpd.
The proposed project includes 1,073 miles of new pipeline in the U.S. (Keystone Mainline). The Keystone Mainline will be comprised of 1,018 miles of 30-inch diameter pipeline from the Canadian border to Wood River, Illinois and 55 miles of 24-inch diameter pipeline from Wood River to Patoka, Illinois. Keystone may also construct an additional pipeline segment from near the Nebraska-Kansas border to Cushing, Oklahoma consisting of 291 miles of 30-inch diameter pipeline.
Because this proposed project will cross into the United States from Canada, a Presidential Permit issued by the U.S. Department of State is required for the project to proceed (see link below to the permit issued on March 11, 2008). This makes the project subject to the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), which requires disclosure of potential environmental impacts (beneficial and adverse) and the consideration of possible alternatives."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDebpHjmcUc
EPA slams State Department tar sands pipeline study
"As John Podesta has said, the phrase "green tar sands" is like "error-free deepwater drilling" and "clean coal". Thankfully, a key Canadian energy goal – construction of a 1,700 mile pipeline to bring dirty tar sands oil from Alberta to refineries on the U.S. Gulf Coast – has hit a significant speed bump, the U.S. EPA. CAP's Tom Kenworthy has the story."
Like Heroin Addiction
"Building a speculative seven billion dollar dirty oil pipeline from and to North America's two oil gluttons – Alberta and Texas – is eerily similar to the physiological symptoms that grip a heroin addict trying to kick the habit. You can literally sense the craving, restlessness, insomnia, and anxiety of these oil executives who would seemingly have no purpose if unable to suck oil out of the ground and continue reaping obscene profits at the expense of the public interest. Even putting aside the multiple better uses for seven billion dollars (did someone say "solar?"), this ill-conceived, harmful and non-transparent 1700 mile pipeline -- across some of America's most treasured prairie landscapes -- possesses two major flaws that strongly militate against the United States allowing it to proceed: 1) It would incapacitate the lungs of North America, the great Boreal Forest, with a bitumen extraction process that would destroy an area the size of Florida; 2) It would take us in the opposite direction of where scientists tell us we need to go in order to stabilize our planet's climate with a standard of at least 350 parts per million of atmospheric carbon dioxide. We should not let a foreign corporation continue an American addiction to oil. Alternatives exist. The Tar Sands Pipeline is a false choice perpetrated by the industry that brought us the Gulf of Mexico disaster. Just say no."
